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Maggi Payne, photographing crystals, composing for Moog modular III, more
Texas-born composer Maggi Payne has just quietly been busy being a legend over decade after decade. Well known to Mills College (as its Center for Contemporary Music co-director until 2018), if you don’t know her, you should. And this is just the kind of Sunday to gaze at some crystals and listen to her ethereal textures on the then already-vintage Moog modular Series III, in a tip straight from The Bob Moog Foundation.
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Tim Exile built an experimental modular system, all about playability
“Music production feels pointless now,” says Tim — but years after walking away from DAWs, he’s embraced instrument building. New Modular System is a patchable environment, constructed in Reaktor, that’s truly Exile-ish in philosophy. It’s not about a bunch of wire connections. You drop in colored modules and get straight to tweaking, generating, and playing — with wild, massively diverse results.
Peter Kirn - April 28, 2026
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Y’all want the new Boards of Canada so bad you crashed Warp’s server
May 29: that’s the date Boards of Canada is back with Inferno. And you must be excited about it, because Bleep is down. But we have a dreamy faux-VHS tape to watch and hear, anyway.
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Peter Kirn - March 20, 2026
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On 303 Day, acid bassline love abounds, and some freebies, too
Peter Kirn - March 3, 2026
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